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A nice addition to any library.

Titus lives in the feed with his friends. The "feed" is a device implanted in his brain that controls him. When they go on a long trip to the moon, his life is irrevocably changed. He meets Violet and they get together. When a terrorist attack hijacks their feeds, Titus's eyes...더 읽기…

Titus lives in the feed with his friends. The "feed" is a device implanted in his brain that controls him. When they go on a long trip to the moon, his life is irrevocably changed. He meets Violet and they get together. When a terrorist attack hijacks their feeds, Titus's eyes are open. His simple easy life starts to slowly change for the worse as he finds out new things about his girlfriend, Violet, and consequently, the world. Violet fights against the feed. It's no mystery that people in Titus's world enjoy their fantastic worry-free lives. However, Titus starts to look away from the feed and this worry-free life when pieces of information slowly leak out. Will Titus actually have the heart to face these changes?

Hail the future of America!

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."Hail the future of America! The moon, the 51st state, is an industrialized wasteland and not too different from Earth. The future is looking a little gray nowadays. The nation is cutting down the last of its trees to make room...더 읽기…

"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck."Hail the future of America! The moon, the 51st state, is an industrialized wasteland and not too different from Earth. The future is looking a little gray nowadays. The nation is cutting down the last of its trees to make room for the air factories. People are developing these lesions on their skin that turn out to be pretty cool when worn by the right celebrities. And the Feed continues to improve itself nicely, always striving to provide a better entertainment experience for those people who have taken the surgical step of progress. Titus enjoys the Feed as much as the next teenage partier. Besides offering the latest product blurbs and news updates, it's got everything you'd ever want in net surfing, music selection, and video streaming. The real question is: How did anyone ever live without it? If "the braggest thing about the feed...is that it knows everything you want and hope for, sometimes before you even know what those things are," how can that be a bad thing? Isn't that everyone's greatest wish--To have their heart desires? Therein lies the satirical beauty of M.T. Anderson's FEED. With choice slang, Anderson constructs a believable future for our world, one where Beauty and Art have been lost in the grip of the Feednet society. As Titus grapples with typical teenage issues cleverly translated for the future, he's forced to make the same decision we all have to make at some point--What are we going to let define us? Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens